obstinate - Story 94298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A scheduling conflict.” The words sounded so insignificant, so utterly devoid of understanding. He felt a coldness spread through him, a numbness that was almost welcome. He knew the cake, the gifts, the carefully planned playlist were all just a waste now. He’d just go home. He'd sit in his chair, and he'd stare at the wall. The wall wouldn't let him down. It would just be there, as always.

Emotion: obstinate

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 0.25 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion obstinate. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 obstinate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the obstinate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the obstinate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.642
`la`	0.547
`de`	0.536
`either`	0.498
`-`	0.433

Suppressed:

`竟然`	-0.354
`终于`	-0.353
`难以`	-0.353
`原来`	-0.351
`previously`	-0.349